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Project Overview

The objective of the Tonle Sap Environmental Management Project is to enhance systems and develop the capacity for natural resource management coordination and planning, community-based natural resource management and capacity for biodiversity conservation in the Tonle Sap biosphere reserve.

To accomplish this objective, the project has three closely interrelated components:

Component 1 aims to strengthen natural resources management coordination and planning through:

• establishing a coordination framework and information dissemination mechanisms
• mapping the Tonle Sap biosphere reserve
• improving regulation and management planning

Component 2 aims to organize communities for natural resource management through:

• formulating and implementation structure
• empowering communities
• evaluating technical packages in support of sustainable livelihoods

Component 3 aims to build management capacity for biodiversity conservation through:

• enhancing management capacity
• developing systems for monitoring and management
• promoting biodiversity conservation awareness